Category: Government
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George Sodeinde Sowemimo was the Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985, and judge for 32 years. Born in 1920, Sowmemimo grew up in the north, from Zaria to Kano where he attended Holy Trinity School. Moving down south, he went to C.M.S. Grammar School, Lagos, and worked briefly with the National Railway Corporation…
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Anti-Slavery and Aborigine Society was a group formed as a corrective against the imperfections of the Crown Colony systems. Lagos Auxiliary of this society, founded by Christopher Sapara Williams in 1905 was described by Gbadegesin in a 2006 doctoral thesis to the Emory University as an equitable opposition coalition that was characterized by extralocal engagement…
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Eko Boys High School is a boys-only institution providing secondary level education. The school moved to its Mushin location in 1952. Structures of the school show signs of old age but it quaintly serve as pride, being the testimony to the school’s status as one of the country’s oldest and one of the best, some…
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Elegba S.B. is the Nigerian professor of physics, who in 1987 installed, commissioned and operated the first Neutron Generator in West Africa. Elegba was trained in Ukraine of the former Soviet Union and in the United States from where he acquired his doctorate degree in Theoretical Solid State Physics from the University of Oregon in…
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Victor Adedapo Kayode, a pioneer Nigerian lawyer was born in 1899 to Emmanuel Adelabi Kayode, an Anglican Reverend from Ile-Ife whose education, from young age had been sponsored by the church. Victor went to the King’s College in Lagos and thereafter tutored at the Methodist Boys High School (MBHS). Among his students were Nnamdi Azikiwe,…
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Eko Akete 1924 By Editor, Adekambi Indispensible part in the Administration of justice The legal education in recent years has attracted a lot of attention locally. This fact is evident from the great increase in the learned members of the Bar but yet in spite of this state of affairs how strange is it that…
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Falomo High Shool, formerly known as Ireti Grammar School, then Ikoyi High School, was founded in September 1981. Although the State government established the school, it still had to grow out of the very ordinary. The Rotary Club joined in the school’s early years in providing some facilities to accommodate the swollen number of students.…
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Federal Government Girls College Akure was established in October 1977 with an initial population of 72 students in Oke Aro, an Akure suburb. FEGGICOLA, as it is often called, has a strong boarding culture with two headmistresses overseeing each of the five boarding houses. Expectedly, it dominated many schools in its region for a long…
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Federal Government College Ijanikin located in Kilometer 28, Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Lagos, was established in 1975 under temporary conditions. The Yaba Trade Center (now Federal Science and Technical College) which served as the site of the new secondary school proved inadequate for full school operations. The following decade started with the school moving to its present…